Tash Aw is the author of four critically-acclaimed novels, including, most recently, We, the Survivors, as well as a memoir of a contemporary Chinese-Malaysian family, The Face: Strangers on a Pier. His writing has won numerous honours, including the Whitbread Prize, Commonwealth Prize and an O. Henry Award, as well as being twice longlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty-three languages. A regular contributor to the New York Times, The Guardian and The London Review of Books, his work has also appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Le Magazine Litteraire, A Public Space and the landmark Granta 100, among many others. Aw was a fellow at Columbia’s Institute for Ideas & Imagination from 2018-2019.